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Assessing the Success of a Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians [PDF]

, 2018
Presentation for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference.
O'Toole, Erin, Marcia McIntosh, Keshmiripour, Setareh, Karen Harker, Erin O’Toole, Harker, Karen, McIntosh, Marcia, Catherine Sassen, Sassen, Catherine, Seti Keshmiripour   +9 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergence of Predatory Publishing in Library and Information Science: Issues and Implications for Scholarship among Academic Librarians in Nigeria

Bilgi Dünyası, 2017
Predatory publishing is an emerging but worrisome trend among academics including librarians in Nigeria. This paper examines crucial issues and implications of predatory publishing among Nigerian academic librarians.
Goodluck Ifijeh
doaj   +1 more source

Defining the Academic Librarian

College & Research Libraries, 1985
L'ensemble des connaissances que devraient posséder le bibliothécaire spécialisé sert de cadre pour tenter une définition de ce professionnel travaillant dans les bibliothèques universitaires. Ses capacités professionnelles se regroupent sous quatre rubriques: une éducation supérieure; une connaissance du monde universitaire; une compréhension de l ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation Criteria for Farsi Academic E-Books: Librarians Attitude at State Universities in Metro Tehran [PDF]

تحقیقات کتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی دانشگاهی, 2010
Purpose: the aim of this research is to consider the most important criteria of Farsi academic e-book from standpoint of academic librarians. Methodology: A researcher-constructed questionnaire was used for the survey.
sepideh fahimifar
doaj  

Canadian Academic Librarians and the Need for a Systematic and Comprehensive Research-Support Model

Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2019
Expectations for Canadian academic librarians’ research have evolved, but not all librarians have access to the support systems needed that aid and enable them to conduct and publish research.
Maha Kumaran
doaj   +1 more source

Making Sense of Standardised Assessment Data: A Response to Snow et al. (2025)

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I write in response to the commentary by Snow et al. (2025) on the paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data published in this journal (Larsen 2024).
Sally A. Larsen
wiley   +1 more source

Caregiver Reports on the Needs and Experiences of Children Impacted by Parental Incarceration: Results From an Australian Survey

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children experiencing parental imprisonment are known to be among the most overlooked in our community. They often experience multiple and compounding disadvantages, with long‐term consequences, but receive no specialised assistance. Knowledge about these children and their families is lacking in Australia and is required to inform policy ...
Catherine Flynn, Lana Battaglia, Lorana Bartels, Susan Dennison, Susy Harrigan, Lee Huggins, Sofia Grage‐Moore   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source